Tag: Monmouth Park

OCEANPORT – Now that Micheline has notched her first graded stakes victory, doing so in her 2021 debut, trainer Michael Stidham is convinced there’s much more to come this year for the 4-year-old daughter of Bernardini. The next step is the Grade 3 Eatontown Stakes on June 20 at Monmouth Park, with the $150,000 Father’s…

OCEANPORT – Jockey Jose Ferrer will often dust off one of his favorite expressions to make sense of having booted home an improbable longshot, as was the case in last Saturday’s Grade 3 Salvator Mile at Monmouth Park, when he won with Informative at odds of 79-1. One is that the horses can’t read the…

OCEANPORT – Kentucky Derby runner-up Mandaloun will face four other 3-year-olds, including two graded stakes winners, when he marks his return to racing in the June 13 TVG.com Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park. Unraced since the Kentucky Derby on May 1, Mandaloun drew post position 2 for the 40th edition of the mile-and-a-sixteenth Pegasus Stakes,…

OCEANPORT – Pirate’s Punch and Ny Traffic took turns with impressive performances a year ago at Monmouth Park. Now they will match their considerable talents in the same race at the track. Pirate’s Punch, idle since the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 7, and Ny Traffic, who made his return to racing on May…

OCEANPORT – Trainer Luis Carvajal has a simple explanation for giving so many unproven – and often inexperienced – jockeys a chance with his horses. “When you do good things for people it eventually comes back to you,” he said. Maria Scaldaferri, a native of Argentina who has yet to win in the United States,…

OCEANPORT – No matter what challenges trainer Chad Brown throws at the lightly raced Altaf, she seems to handle each one more easily than the last. Facing stakes company for the first time in her brief career while also trying two turns for the first time, Altaf had no problem with either, rolling to a…

OCEANPORT – Five starts after getting Corelli, trainer Jonathan Thomas believes he has finally found the key to success for the 6-year-old gelding. At least he hopes he has. A winner in his 2021 comeback race on April 24 at Pimlico Race Course, Corelli will step up to graded stakes company again when the grass…

OCEANPORT – This is the part of training thoroughbreds that runs the gamut of emotions for Kelly Breen, with equal parts of anticipation, excitement and anxiety. Monmouth Park will hold its first 2-year-old races of the year during the June 4 twilight card – a pair of 4½-furlong dashes for Maiden Special Weight fillies –…